Strike Follow

THE KILLING of 14 people on a picket line at a sugar plantation in the Philippines has shocked the country. The family of former president Cory Aquino, who own the plantation, have been implicated in the killings.

A PAY strike by a key group of steel workers which would shut steel plants across South Yorkshire hangs in the balance.

More than 40 schools across Brighton and Hove were closed on Thursday and Friday of last week as around 700 teaching assistants from the Unison and GMB unions struck over low pay.

SOCIAL WORKERS in childcare and emergency duty teams in Liverpool are now in the 14th week of their strike.

LONDON Underground station staff have been ofered a 35-hour week deal as a result of the RMT union’s recent pay strike.

Striking workers at Boddington’s brewery in Manchester went back to work on Friday of last week after their latest four days of strike action.

FORD AND Jaguar executives have been exposed as nothing less than liars and cheats.

WORKERS FROM the threatened Boddingtons brewery in Manchester, started a four-day strike on Monday in the latest phase of their campaign against closure.

A GROUP of school students has shown how to challenge oppression and hierarchy by striking in support of a black teacher who was subject to racist abuse in Leicester last Thursday.

THE RECENT highly successful strike by 265,000 members of the PCS union against cuts to jobs, sick pay and pensions shocked the government.

THE THREAT of a postal strike in London over Christmas has won a vastly improved deal which will have implications for all future agreements.

DRIVERS AT parcel distribution company Lynx were due to hold a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week over pay and hours. The workers, who are in the TGWU union, have already held two 24-hour strikes.